Those of us without the time or inclination to relive high school can choose from a small range of books published over the past several years by
noneducators (usually journalists)
who, provoked by events at Columbine, piqued by their own children's high - school experience, or simply in need of a job, took a semester or a year off to revisit the scene of so much youthful Sturm und Drang.
Patterson,
who calls the shift in school culture a «total systems change,» uses scripts and flash cards in the Voyager Passport reading curriculum, purchased with a grant from the Oklahoma State Department of Education, to guide her building's
noneducators through the lessons.